Identity area
Reference code
MS 199
Title
Bonar Long & Co. Ltd, electrical plant manufacturers, Dundee
Date(s)
- 1930s-1990s (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
17 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
(1936-1994)
Administrative history
George Bonar, Managing Director of Low & Bonar, invited Tom Long, an electrical engineer, and his colleague, Henrik Rissik, to Dundee to launch their new company for manufacturing mercury arc rectifiers, transformers and electric arc welding equipment, at premises in part of the Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd., Dundee factory, a subsidiary of Low and Bonar. The lease for the new company, Bonar Long & Co. Ltd, began in October 1936. In 1994 the company became part of ABB Power T&D Ltd, based in Aberdeen, maker of telegraph and telephone apparatus and equipment
Sources: http://www.scran.ac.uk and https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bonar_Long_and_Co
Sources: http://www.scran.ac.uk and https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bonar_Long_and_Co
Repository
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Minutes, correspondence, company records, financial papers, photographs, microfilm, cups.
Accruals
Not expected
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.
Conditions governing reproduction
Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Paper
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Further records are available; please contact Archive staff for handlists of accessions
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
MS 199
Rules and/or conventions used
Description compiled in line with the following standards: International Council on Archives, ISAD(G) General International Standard Archival Description; International Council on Archives, ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families; National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997
Status
Catalogued
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English